Monday, 30 July 2012

Necron Aegis Defense Line

With the new version of Warhammer 40k allowing fortifications to be bought as part of your army, I wanted to try and make something for my necrons (given that the only kit available is for the Imperial Armies). So this is my version of the Aegis Defense Line with a necron theme.

There are two main sub components, a short and a long barricade. The short has two vanes/spars and the long has four.

The barricades are made from laser-cut cardboard that is 1.3mm thick which sandwiches a layer of clear perspex that is 1.5mm thick. The perspex was also laser cut.

The perspex was spraypainted with a thin coat of gloss green as I cannot get tinted perspex at that thickness.

Everything was painted before assembly.

There are three sets of the long/short barricades and these can be stacked to make a sizable defensive perimeter.

The necron glyphs are repeated on the back of the piece in a mirror of the front. The translucent green is supposed to represent an energy field rather than a physical material, with the little pieces being suspended in it.

This particular build is a little fiddly and has a lot of pieces (and ends up costing the same as the GW kit). I have sent a simplified version off for a test cut and if it works, the "Space Zombie Barricade" (thanks Kelly) will be on offer.

For a static gun emplacement I have taken the tesla destructor from the command barge and mounted on a base for a IG sentinel, treat as a static ie immobilized, artillery unit (refer to rulebook) with a crew of two to three spare neurons to fire it, use theyre BS fires as normal entry, no skyfire USR, 100pts seems to work in my games and would work good as a fortification extra, particularly for planetstrike games

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I've been playing wargames and RPGs since 1984. Warhammer 40k has always been my first love.
I prefer to paint and scratch build though, and play quite rarely. Recently I have started experimenting with laser cutting components.
My friends encouraged me to try and sell some of the better efforts and so I have set up a web store too.
This blog was started to encourage me to finish all the unpainted miniatures I had collected over the years.
It still does that but now it also highlights the R&D of the laser cut stuff.